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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. Ingres vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Well established RDBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.ehcache.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Actian Corporation

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2015

2009

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1994

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

11.2, May 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Ingres Replicator

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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